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3 days ago · The South Semitic languages show a system somewhere between the East and Central Semitic languages. Later languages show further developments. In the modern varieties of Arabic , for example, the old mood suffixes were dropped, and new mood prefixes developed (e.g. bi- for indicative vs. no prefix for subjunctive in many varieties).
- Afroasiatic Languages
The Afroasiatic languages (or Afro-Asiatic, sometimes...
- West Semitic
The West Semitic languages consist of the clearly defined...
- East Semitic
East Semitic in green. The East Semitic languages are one of...
- Ethiopian Semitic Languages
Ethio-Semitic (also Ethiopian Semitic, Ethiosemitic,...
- Proto-Semitic Language
Proto-Semitic is the reconstructed proto-language common...
- Afroasiatic Languages
5 days ago · It is an abecedary—an ordered list of letters used to learn one’s ABCs. Of course, it took years for scholars to crack the mystery and, for a while, some even thought it could be an early example of a South Semitic script.
1 day ago · Early Semitic scripts. The Paleo-Hebrew alphabet is a regional variant of the Phoenician alphabet, so called when used to write early Hebrew. The Samaritan alphabet is a development of Paleo-Hebrew, emerging in the 6th century BC.
3 days ago · The western two-thirds of the Arabian Peninsula were home to numerous literate societies. Indeed, one of the two branches of the alphabet — the South Semitic script family — was used exclusively in ancient Arabia, and still exists in the vocalized alphabets used in Ethiopia.
1 day ago · Phoenicia ( / fəˈnɪʃə, fəˈniːʃə / ), [4] or Phœnicia, was an ancient Semitic thalassocratic civilization originating in the coastal strip of the Levant region of the eastern Mediterranean, primarily located in modern Lebanon. [5] [6] The territory of the Phoenicians expanded and contracted throughout history, with the core of their ...
4 days ago · Semite, name given in the 19th century to a member of any people who speak one of the Semitic languages, a family of languages spoken primarily in parts of western Asia and Africa. The term therefore came to include Arabs, Akkadians, Canaanites, Hebrews, some Ethiopians (including the Amhara and
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2 days ago · Thamudic. Photograph showing a graffito written in Thamudic B. ‘Thamudic’ is a name invented by nineteenth-century scholars for large numbers of inscriptions in ANA alphabets which have not yet been properly studied. It does not imply that they were carved by members of the ancient tribe of Thamūd. These texts are found over a huge area ...
